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| image = Chandrashekhar Patil.jpeg<br />
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1939|6|18|df=yes}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Hattimattur]], [[Haveri district|Haveri]], [[British Raj]]<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|2022|1|10|1939|6|18|df=y}}<br />
| death_place = [[Bangalore, Karnataka]], India<br />
| occupation = Writer, public intellectual, professor<br />
| movement = [[Bandaya movement]]<br />
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| education = [[Master of Arts|MA]] in [[linguistics]]<br />
| alma_mater = [[Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages|Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages (CIEFL)]], [[University of Leeds]]<br />
| notable works = ''Gandhi Smarane''<br />
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'''Chandrashekar Patil''' (18 June 1939{{Spaced en dash}}10 January 2022), popularly known as '''Champa''', was an Indian poet, playwright and public intellectual writing in [[Kannada]]. Patil was a recipient of the [[Karnataka Sahitya Akademi Award for Poetry]] in 1989 and the Karnataka state government's [[Pampa Award]] in 2009. Patil had served as the president of the [[Kannada Sahitya Parishat]], a Kannada language literary organization.<br />
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== Life and career ==<br />
Champa was the editor of the literary journal ''Sankramana'' started with two of his friends Siddalinga Pattanashetti and Giraddi Govindaraj in 1964. He was known for leading many social and literary movements such as [[Gokak agitation]], [[Bandaya movement]], anti-[[The Emergency (India)|Emergency]] agitation, agitation for the implementation of [[Mandal Commission|Mandal]] report, Farmer's movement amongst others.{{citation needed|date= August 2022}}<br />
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After retiring as professor of English from [[Karnatak University]], Patil served as the President of [[Kannada Sahitya Parishat]] and as the Chairman of Kannada Development Authority.<ref>{{cite web|title=Chandrashekar Patil|url=https://www.karnataka.com/personalities/chandrashekhar-patil-kannada-writer/|website=Karnataka.com|date=28 September 2012|publisher=Oneindia.com|access-date=27 September 2015}}</ref> Patil was a recipient of the [[Karnataka Sahitya Akademi Award for Poetry]] in 1989 and the [[Pampa Award|Karnataka state government's Pampa Award in 2009]].<ref name=":0">{{cite news|date=7 September 2015|title=Kalburgi murder: Kannada writer to return Pampa award|work=The Hindu|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kalburgi-murder-kannada-writer-to-return-pampa-award/article7622303.ece|access-date=27 September 2015}}</ref><br />
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In addition to Kannada language, Patil also wrote in English. An anthology of his poems titled, ''At the other end,'' was published in 1983. The anthology included both poems written originally in English and his own poems translated from Kannada.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Amanuddin|first1=S .|last2=Patil|first2=Chandrashekhar|date=1984|title=At the Other End|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40140509|journal=World Literature Today|language=en|volume=58|issue=4|pages=668|doi=10.2307/40140509|jstor=40140509|url-access=subscription}}</ref><br />
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Patil was a proponent of Kannada language as a medium of instruction in the state's government schools and had spoken out in 2019 against the then state government's move to introduce English as the medium of instruction in the state's government schools.<ref>{{Cite web|date=6 January 2019|title=Literary meet misses the point, scores on facilities|url=https://www.deccanherald.com/state/literary-meet-misses-point-711708.html|access-date=10 January 2022|website=Deccan Herald|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=5 January 2019|title=CM defends decision on English medium schools|url=https://www.deccanherald.com/state/cm-defends-decision-english-711460.html|access-date=10 January 2022|website=Deccan Herald|language=en}}</ref> Earlier, in 2015, protesting the assassination of his friend and Vachana scholar [[M. M. Kalburgi]], he returned his [[Pampa Award]], the highest literary honour of the [[government of Karnataka]].<ref name=":0" /><br />
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Patil died in Bangalore on 10 January 2022, at the age of 83.<ref>{{Cite web|date=10 January 2022|title=Chandrashekhar Patil: ಕನ್ನಡದ ಹಿರಿಯ ಸಾಹಿತಿ ಚಂಪಾ ಇನ್ನಿಲ್ಲ|url=https://kannada.news18.com/news/state/bengaluru-urban-chandrashekhar-patil-no-more-mrq-698267.html|access-date=10 January 2022|website=News18 Kannada|language=kn}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Bharadwaj|first=K.V Aditya|date=10 January 2022|title=Kannada writer-activist Champa passes away|language=en-IN|work=The Hindu|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/kannada-writer-activist-champa-passes-away/article38213440.ece|access-date=10 January 2022|issn=0971-751X}}</ref><br />
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==Works==<br />
===Poetry===<br />
Source(s):<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|title=Noted Kannada Poet, Playwright Chandrashekhar Patil Dies At 82|work=|agency=Press Trust of India|url=https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/chandrashekhar-patil-death-chandrashekhar-patil-death-news-noted-kannada-poet-playwright-chandrashekhar-patil-dies-at-82-2699237|access-date=10 January 2022|via=NDTV}}</ref>{{Additional citation needed|date=January 2022}}<br />
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* ''Banuli'' (1960)<br />
* ''Madhyabindu''<br />
* ''19 Kavanagalu''<br />
* ''Gandhi smarane''<br />
* ''Hoovu Hennu Taare''<br />
* ''Shalmala Nanna Shalmala''<br />
* ''Ardha Satyada Hudugi'' (1989; [[Karnataka Sahitya Akademi Award for Poetry]])<br />
* Gundammana Gazhalagal<br />
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===Plays===<br />
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*''Kodegalu''<br />
* ''Appa'' (1969)<br />
* ''Gurtinavaru'' (1971)<br />
* ''Tingara Buddanna'' (1971)<br />
* ''Kattala Ratri''<br />
* ''Gokarnada Goudasani'' (1974)<br />
* ''Nalakaviya Mastabhisheka'' (1979)<br />
* ''Jagadamebeya Beedinataka''<br />
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===Essays===<br />
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* Nanna Haadina Halla<br />
* Anarogyave Bhagya<br />
* Champadakiya<br />
* Nanu Kandante Nanage Kandashtu<br />
* Aksharalokada Aakritigalu<br />
* Champa Nota<br />
* Champa Column<br />
* Nanna Guru Gokak<br />
* Kritikendritha<br />
* Nitya Varthamana<br />
* Kannada Kannada Barri Namma Sangada<br />
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